Ray Bradbury Quotes

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

No one has a right to happiness.

The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.